Sounding device



J. S. STEMONS.

' SOUNDING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED nov. 22, 1921.

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JAMES S. STEll/JEONS, F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

SO'U'NIJING DEVICE.

Application filed. November 22, 1921. Serial No. 516,936.

' To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JAMns S. SrnMoNs, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and-county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Sounding Device, of which the following is a specification;

This invention relates to sounding toys and has for an object toprovide a toy of the Whirligig type with improved means for producing sound of increased volume as the toy rotates.

A further object of the invention is to provide a toy or sounding device of the disk type with means for rotating the same rapidly, upon opposite sides of which are produced approximately semi-spherical members having openings therein, said openings and members communicating with to each other through the plane of the disk.

A further object ofthe invention is to provide a sounding member of the disk type having spherical segments extending upon opposite sides and in register with each other, with openings formed upon the axes of the segments extending entirely I. through the plane of the disk and adjacent members.

A further object of the invention is to provide a sounding device of the disk type having spherical segmental protuberances upon opposite sides in register with each other, said protuberances having openings upon the axes of the spherical segments communicating with each other through the plane of the disk, and with a vibrating reed positioned to receive a current of air entering one or more of the openings in said se ments.

With these and other objects in view the invention comprises certain novel elements, parts, units, combinations, arrangements and functions as disclosed in the drawing, together with mechanical equivalents thereof, as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device mounted as a Whirligig upon cords for the purpose of setting up a rapid rotary motion; 1

Figure 2 is a view of the member in side elevation;

Figure 3 is a diametrical sectional view on line 3-3 of Figure 2;

spherical segments showing a vibrating reed associated with one of said segments;

Figure 6 is a view of one of the segments in side elevation with the vibrating reed associated therewith;

Figure 7 is a view in side elevation of the mechanism for rotating the disk as a mechanical means to apply to a vehicle, or the like, and

Figure 8 is a sectional view of the device shown at Figure 7.

Like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several VIEWS.

The invention which. forms the subject matter of this application, while primarily intended for-and called a toy, is not limited in its utility to such use, but may be employed successfully as an alarm or Warning carried by a vehicle or in other positions as circumstances may make necessary or desirable. It primarily consists of a disk 10 with means for rotating such disk rap idly. As shown at Figure Qtwo perforations '11 are provided throughwhich may be threaded a cord 12, as shown at Figure 1 to rotate the disk in the manner familiar in the operation of whirligigs. As shown at Figures 7 and 8 the disk may be rigidly secured to a shaft 12 journaled in a bracket 13 which bracket may, if found desirable, be rigidly secured to any convenient body, indicated in dotted lines at 14.

The shaft 12' may be rotated manually by the employment of any usual and ordinary device shown here as a star wheel 15, rigidly secured to the shaft and a plunger 16 having a tooth or finger l7 positioned to engage one of the teeth of the star wheel 15 when depressed by engagement with the head 18 against the tension of the spring 19. A sudden forcible depression of the plunger in this manner will set up a rapid rotation of the shaft carrying the disk 10, and when the rotation thus initiated has ceased, a release of the plunger 16 will permit the spring 19 to return the parts, again causing the finger 17 to engage one of the teeth 15 to rotate the disk in the opposite direction. Other means for rotating thedisk will be apparent to those skilled in the art and are included in the present invention.

Upon opposite sides of the disk 10 spherical segments 20 are provided. These spherical segments may be each produced separately and attached upon opposite sides of the disk and covering openings 21, through the disk, as shown at Figures 3 and 5, or only one of said segments need be employed, the other segmental protuberanc-es 22 being stamped up from the disk itself, as indicated at Figure 4:. In either case there is a spherically segmental protu berance upon each side of the disk opposite each other and registering with an opening through the disk. As shown in the drawing, two pairs of these segmental protuberances are used, but it is obvious that the invention is in no way limited to two pairs andmore or less may be employed as found desirable.

Upon the axes of these spherical segments, perforations 23 are produced, the openings also being in alinement each with the other to produce, by reason of the arrangement of the opposed sphericalsegments, a whistle.

The rapid rotation of the disk carrying these spherical segments with the perforations and with the communicating openings 21, set up and produce a loud sound pleasing to juveniles and the like. In addition one or more of the perforations 23 may have as sociated therewith a reed 24, which will be rigidly secured to the interior of the segment upon one side of the perforation 23 in any approved manner, as indicated at 25, intended to represent solder. \Vhile only one of these reed attachments has been shown, as at Figures 5 and 6, it is obvious that more than one may be provided with a reed, if found desirable. In fact, each and every one of said perforations may have associated therewith one of the reeds,- and the invention is in no way limited to the number of reeds so employed.

In operation, therefore the disk is rapidly rotated by any usual, ordinary or approved mechanical means, and while shown in the drawings as employing a means for rotating alternately in opposite directions. it is obvious also that any means which may rotate it continuously or intermittently in the same direction will produce equal or better results.

It will now be apparent that I have devised a novel and useful sounding device, which embodies the features of advantage enumerated as desirable in the statement of the invention and the above description, and while I have in the present instance shown and described forms thereof which are at present preferred by me, it is to be understood that the same is susceptible of modification in various particulars without dc parting from the spirit or scope of the invention or sacrificing any of its advantages.

What I claim is 1. In a device of the character stated, a disc having on a. side thereof a spherical segment having a convex exterior and a hole therein, and a reed on the inner concave surface of said segment, said reed extending across said hole and secured at one end to said segment with its other end tree to vibrate.

2. In a device of the character stated, a disc having on opposite sides thereof aligning sperical segments having a convex exterior and holes therethrougln and a reed secured at one end to the inner con :ave snrface of one of said segments, said reed extending acrossthe juxtaposed hole and being free to vibrate at its free end.

3. A sounding device comprising a disk, spherical segments protruding upon opposite sides of the plane of the disk and communicating with each other and having axial perforations, a reed secured at oneend to the inner surface of one of said segments adjacent to one of the perforations and adapted to vibrate by the passage of air therethrough, and means to rotate the disk.

JAMES S. STEMONS.

Witnesses E. HAYWARD FAIRBANKS, C. D. MoVAY. 

